The Truth About Building & Renovating an Aesthetics Clinic with Eleanore Quadri

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let's get into it Hi, Eleanor.

Welcome to the podcast.

Thank you so much for coming on.

It's so great to have you here.

For anyone who hasn't heard of you before, tell us a little bit about yourself, what you do and how you got into the aesthetics industry.

Oh, thanks, Emily.

And thanks for asking me as well.

So I'm Eleanor.

I run Revive Cosmetics down just past Ashford in Kent.

I'm a nurse prescriber and a clinic owner.

I've been going for about 15 years now, quietly in the back.

just plodding along and obviously one of the reasons why we kind of discussed things was because I've done things a little bit unconventionally maybe compared to some other clinic owners so yes I'm hoping that my story might help others to just show them where I've come from because obviously I was a pure NHS nurse in oncology for nearly 20 years and then moved into the aesthetics world and then finally left after Covid and now I've just completely run my business.

And you've never gone down the pathway I don't think correct me if I'm wrong of of training in aesthetics and then working in someone else's clinic you've always had your own clinics is that right

yeah yeah so I've always built it up and then now I do work for some pharmaceutical companies but I've always been predominantly just the nurse in the clinic

amazing and like you said you've done things in slightly unconventional ways you know in comparison to other practitioners So tell me about your journey into aesthetics and, you know, from your first clinic to where you are today.

Like how what happened? What did you what did you do? So

I think when I first started thinking about going into aesthetics when I was pregnant with my firstborn, it was actually my husband that was like, well, look, we could convert the garage.

You could have your own little kind of studio.

And I think that's where most people start out.

And I was like, yeah, that sounds good.

It was professional work.

So we completely did like a change of use.

And I worked from there for a couple of good few years.

That's when things started to pick up.